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Costa Rica
(2014)Costa Rica is a country with abundant and diverse freshwater ecosystems, which are influenced and characterized by different orographic precipitation regimes. This variety of habitats harbors great biological diversity, ... -
Costa Rica, land of endless orchids
(2013-07)With almost 1,600 reported species (Karremans et al. 2012), Costa Rica has one of the richest orchid floras in tropical America, currently surpassed in total species number only by Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru (Govaerts ... -
Costa rican international cooperative biodiversity group: using insects and other arthropods in biodiversity prospecting
(Pharmaceutical Biology 37(Supplement):55–68. 1999, 1999)This paper describes the Costa Rican International Collaborative Biodiversity Group (ICBG), which was designed to introduce insects and other arthropods as a source of pharmaceutical compounds, and to generate knowledge ... -
Coupling a bio-accumulator organism and MALDI-TOF MS: an early warning detection system for microcystins in water bodies
(2017)Microcystins produced by freshwater cyanobacteria pose serious threats to human health and are a growing problem in drinking water supplies worldwide. Toxin detection and identification in water reservoirs when cyanobacterial ... -
Courtship behavior and copulation in Tengella radiata (Araneae, Tengellidae)
(2008)The first description of the courtship behavior and copulation is provided for Tengella radiata (Kulczynski 1909). The male courts the female by rocking his body and vibrating his abdomen. These behaviors seem to induce ... -
Courtship behavior of different wild strains of Ceratitis Capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae)
(Florida Entomologist 90(1) March 2007, 2007-03)Este estudio documenta diferencias en el comportamiento de cortejo de cepas silvestres de Ceratitis capitata (Wied.) provenientes de Madeira (Portugal), Hawaii (Estados Unidos de Norte América), Costa Rica y Patagonia ... -
Courtship, egg sac construction, and maternal care in Kukulcania hibernalis, with information on the courtship of Misionella mendensis (Araneae, Filistatidae)
(2013)Morphological and behavioural traits place Filistatidae basally within Araneomorphae, although some features, such as their continuing to moult after reaching adulthood, are reminiscent of mygalomorph spiders. This paper ... -
Co‑occurring epiphytic orchids have specialized mycorrhizal fungal niches that are also linked to ontogeny
(2023)Mycorrhizal symbiosis has been related to the coexistence and community assembly of coexisting orchids in few studies despite their obligate dependence on mycorrhizal partners to establish and survive. In hyper-diverse ... -
Crecimiento de Mytella guyanensis (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) en balsas flotantes
(1998)Growth of the mytilid species Mytella guyanensis was studied on a floating raft in Chira Island, inner Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica. Natural seed collection was done with 1.5 m long spat collectors suspended from a wooden ... -
Crecimiento y reproducción de Strombus galeatus (Gastropoda: Strombidae) en el Pacífico de Costa Rica
(1998)Strombus galeatus is a gastropod distributed from the Gulf of California in Mexico to the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, and as other strombid species, in the costarican coast is a resource of high overfishing with no ... -
Crossoglossa sotoana (Orchidaceae: Malaxideae), a new species honoring the late Mexican botanist, Miguel Ángel Soto Arenas
(2010)Crossoglossa sotoana, a new species from Costa Rica, is described and illustrated. It is compared with Ecuadorian C. barfodii, from which it differs by the strongly undulate margins of the leaves, the resupinate flowers, ... -
Crustacean fauna (Stomatopoda: Decapoda) associated with the deepwater fishery of Heterocarpus vicarius (Decapoda: Pandalidae) along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica
(2007)Commercial bottom trawling is a successful and commonly used method to catch marine shrimps. However, the shrimp fishing gears are poorly selective, and in addition to the target species they catch and retain large quantities ... -
Crustaceans (Decapoda & Stomatopoda) from Golfo Dulce (Pacific, Costa Rica) in the collection of the Museum of Zoology, University of Costa Rica
(2020-06)Introduction: The availability of recently updated lists of species from a particular area is an important first step to evaluate changes in species composition and abundance. Golfo Dulce is a fjord-like embayment with ... -
Crustáceos (Decapoda y Stomatopoda) del R.V. Skimmer y R.V. Victor Hensen en el Golfo de Nicoya, Pacífico, Costa Rica
(2019-01-31)El acceso a datos actualizados, sobre los nombres y distribución de las especies de crustáceos presentes en un área en particular, es un primer paso para evaluar cambios debidos a factores locales, regionales o globales, ... -
Cuando la conservación no puede seguir el ritmo del desarrollo: Estado de salud de los ecosistemas coralinos del Pacífico Norte de Costa Rica
(2018)When conservation can keep up with development´s pace: Health status of coral ecosystems in the North Pacific of Costa Rica. Coral reefs are diverse and productive ecosystems, despite this, they are being threatened by ... -
Cues guiding uloborid construction behavior support orb web monophyly
(2015)Behavior can provide useful traits for testing phylogenetic hypotheses, and some details of orb web construction behavior have been especially useful in characterizing higher-level groups in spiders. The cues used to guide ... -
Cultivation potential of Vanilla crop wild relatives in two contrasting land use systems
(2023)Vanilla is an important cash crop for many smallholder farmers around the tropics, and a highly appreciated spice used in a wide range of products. The crop species Vanilla planifolia is, however, facing a number of threats ... -
Curculionid beetles in aborted flower buds and immature fruits of Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae)
(2008)We determined the incidence of curculionid beetles of the genus Lonchophorus on aborted and not aborted flower buds and developing fruits of the tree Ceiba pentandra in southeastern Costa Rica. Beetle larvae were found in ... -
Current approaches to the isolation and structural elucidation of active compounds from natural products
(2018)The essence of medicinal plants, either as pure compounds or as standardized extracts, provides unlimited opportunities for new drug leads because of the unmatched availability of chemical diversity. Due to an increasing ...